Afghanistan: UK Personnel

Lord Garden: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many extra United Kingdom military personnel are required to man the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters in Afghanistan compared to any other headquarters where the United Kingdom is not the framework nation.

Lord Drayson: There are currently some 1,050 United Kingdom personnel serving with the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in its role as headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). On current plans, that should reduce to around 125 personnel from February 2007, when the headquarters of the ISAF will be provided by a composite headquarters generated from across the alliance.

Alcohol and Drugs: Rehabilitation of Addicts

Lord Hylton: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What information they have about the relative effectiveness of residential and day centres for the rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts.

Lord Warner: Large studies in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America have shown improved outcomes for clients who have undergone residential rehabilitation. The American Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Study (DATOS) showed good outcomes at one year for people who had been treated in residential rehabilitation programmes, with cocaine and heroin use reduced by two-thirds from intake levels. The British National Treatment Outcome Research Study (NTORS) showed that about half of the clients were abstinent from heroin and other opiates for three months after residential treatment. Injecting was halved and needle-sharing reduced by more than two-thirds.
	NTORS also showed that clients with more complex drug use make better gains in residential rehabilitation than in community treatment. Improved outcomes were most likely to be found among clients who spent longer in residential rehabilitation, with those staying in treatment for at least three months more likely to have positive outcomes.
	There is limited evidence regarding the effectiveness of structured day programmes for drug misuse. Hence, currently there is little evidence concerning the relative effectiveness of the two settings in successful drug rehabilitation.
	The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse has recently published a Review of the Effectiveness of Treatment for Alcohol Problems, which concludes in regard to alcohol rehabilitation that,
	"outpatient care is more cost effective than residential or inpatient care, although inpatient or residential facilities are still required for some service users".
	However, the review confirms that residential services may not always be more costly than out-patient services. (Note: "out-patient" in this analysis includes day service provision).

Alcohol and Drugs: Rehabilitation of Addicts

Lord Hylton: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether any residential centres for the rehabilitation of addicts now have spare capacity; and, if so, what plans they have to make full use of this capacity.

Lord Warner: This information is not available centrally.

Animal Welfare: Wild Birds

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Answer by Lord Bach on 20 November 2005 (HL Deb, col. 105), which stated that the mortality of those birds, once they entered the European Union to get to their final destination, was unacceptably high, whether the mortality of birds was also unacceptably high (a) in the act of capture; (b) in transit outside the European Union; and (c) in quarantine; and what they consider to be an acceptable rate of mortality at each of these stages.

Lord Rooker: The Government agree with the conclusions of the European Food Safety Authority's report Animal Health and Welfare Risks Associated with the Import of Wild Birds other than Poultry into the European Union, including those on welfare. The full report is available at http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/ahaw/ahaw_opinions/ahaw_op_ej410_captive_birds.html.

Animal Welfare: Wild Birds

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How, if the ban on imports of wild birds is lifted, a veterinary officer supervising quarantine facilities will be updated about mortality in a consignment; and how regularly these updates will occur; and
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 27 November (WA 24), how they will ascertain cases where the welfare of birds has been compromised without identifying a threshold for acceptable rates of mortality; and
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 27 November (WA 24), whether a resumption of trade in wild birds without significant changes to the former regime would be consistent with the duty of care in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to protect an animal from pain, suffering, injury and disease; and
	Whether an average mortality rate of 7 per cent in quarantine is consistent with good standards of animal welfare.

Lord Rooker: On 4 December, the European Union (EU) Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health voted to extend a complete ban on the import of wild birds until 31 March 2007. The extension was justified in terms of allowing time for the Community to introduce proposals dealing with concerns outlined in the European Food Safety Authority's report on Animal Health and Welfare Risks Associated with the Import of Wild Birds other than Poultry into the European Union.
	As the Prime Minister wrote in his letter to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on 5 December, the UK intends to press other member states and the European Commission to extend indefinitely the ban on the commercial import of wild birds from 1 April 2007, with exceptions for recognised international conservation programmes. This would protect both human and animal health, while benefiting the welfare of wild birds.
	Draft proposals circulated by the Commission detail an extremely strict import regime, with only a small number of countries (Australia, Bulgaria, some states of Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, Croatia, Israel, New Zealand, Romania, Tunisia and the USA) able to export to the EU. The proposals also contain a requirement that birds come from authorised breeding colonies and strict rules about permissible transportation time. We expect very low levels of imports as a result of these high standards, which are necessary to safeguard bird health.
	On welfare, veterinary officers (VO) from the State Veterinary Service will use their professional judgment to enforce welfare law. Under quarantine regulations, the death of any bird during the quarantine period should be reported to the VO supervising the quarantine as soon as is reasonably practical. It is illegal for a person to remove or dispose of a carcass of a captive bird which dies in quarantine, unless a veterinary inspector has authorised its removal or disposal. Quarantine approval will be revoked if requirements are not met.

Common Agricultural Policy: Single Farm Payment

Baroness Byford: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many letters were outstanding in connection with the single farm payment scheme from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs or the Rural Payments Agency for the months June to November.

Lord Rooker: The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is receiving a large volume of customer correspondence relating to the single payment scheme (SPS).
	In July 2006, RPA introduced a new correspondence monitoring system which provides details of the number of outstanding pieces of correspondence. The position between July to November is as follows:
	
		
			 Month end Number of outstanding correspondence 
			 July 36,659 
			 August 27,589 
			 September 22,420 
			 October 14,226 
			 November 12,143

Common Agricultural Policy: Single Farm Payment

Baroness Byford: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many extra staff have been employed by the Rural Payments Agency to validate payments since the single farm payments scheme commenced; how many are still working within the agency; and what has been the cost to date.

Lord Rooker: Before the implementation of the single payment scheme the Rural Payments Agency employed approximately 686 full-time equivalent staff involved in processing the schemes replaced by the SPS. The current number of full-time equivalents working on SPS processing is approximately 2,043. This represents an increase of approximately 1,357 full-time equivalents, mostly at administrative officer level, with an approximate cost of £9.6million.

Common Agricultural Policy: Single Farm Payment

Lord Marlesford: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many farmers in England have yet to receive the single farm payment for 2005; and when they expect to start paying the single farm payment for 2006.

Lord Rooker: As at 7 December 2006, 2,953 farmers have not received a full payment under the 2005 single payment scheme, although 1,977 of these farmers have received a partial payment.
	As announced on 7 November 2006 by David Miliband, full payments for the 2006 scheme year will begin in the early part of next year and where full payments are not possible partial payments should start in mid-February for eligible claims above €1,000. The Rural Payments Agency estimates that the partial payments process would take around three weeks.

Common Agricultural Policy: Single Farm Payment

Baroness Byford: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Statement by Lord Rooker on 7 November (HL Deb, col 678—9), whether HM Revenue and Customs has decided not to claim tax due from farmers who have not yet been paid all of their single farm payment; and whether the same applies to those who have received only partial payments.

Lord McKenzie of Luton: HM Revenue and Customs has made no such decision. The commissioners of HM Revenue and Customs have no legal authority to refrain from collecting tax which is properly due under the law. However, the commissioners do have discretion to defer the payment of tax in cases of genuine hardship, and apply such discretion in the case of farmers as they do for other taxpayers.

Disabled People: Employment

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the replies by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath on 11 November (HL Deb, cols 592—5), what percentage of staff currently employed in each government department are registered as disabled people; and what the comparable figures were for each of the last five years.

Lord McKenzie of Luton: The information requested falls within the responsibilities of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
	Letter from the National Statistician, Karen Dunnell, dated 12 December 2006.
	As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what percentage of staff currently employed in each government department are registered as disabled people; and what the comparable figures were for each of the last five years (HL 26).
	Diversity statistics are published annually in the Civil Service Statistics report on the Cabinet Office website. The latest publication, for 2005, presents statistics on permanent staff in post for all staff and Senior Civil Service level by department and disability status.
	http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/statistics/publications/xls/report_2005/table_p.xls
	Comparable statistics have been prepared on an ad hoc basis for 2003 and 2004 and have been placed in the House of Lords Library.
	For earlier years, statistics on disability status are available only by responsibility level and Government Office for the Regions. Links are provided to the relevant tables. Information by department could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	Please note that information on disability is collected on voluntary self-classification questionnaires and there is considerable non-response. For example, in April 2005, the disability status of 26 per cent of staff was unknown. Non-response particularly affects those moving between departments. Therefore, the statistics on disability should be interpreted with some caution, particularly year-on-year changes.

Elections: Review of Systems

Lord Greaves: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What is the cost of the review of electoral systems to date; and what is the total expected cost of the review.

Baroness Ashton of Upholland: The review is being carried out internally and the cost has been absorbed by my department's electoral policy division. The precise costs of this ongoing work have not been recorded, as members of the review team perform a variety of duties.

Gulf War Illnesses

Lord Morris of Manchester: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Drayson on 9 October 2003 (WA 67—79) and the Written Statement by Lord Drayson on 19 October (WS 87—8), whether and on what date the Written Answer by Lord Bach was drawn to the attention of those who conducted the study referred to in the Written Statement on 19 October; and whether full account was taken by them of the findings conveyed in the Written Answer by Lord Bach.

Lord Drayson: As indicated in the Answer given by my noble Friend Lord Bach on 17 November 2003 (Official Report, col. WA255-6), the facts of the medical countermeasures programme were known to researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down and will have been taken into account in their work.

Intellectual Property: Copyright

Lord Clement-Jones: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	In what ways they intend to modernise copyright, in light of the recommendations of the Gowers review of intellectual property.

Lord Truscott: The Government welcome the Gowers review of intellectual property, published on 6 December, and as set out in our response in the Pre-Budget Report, we will take forward those recommendations for which we are responsible. There are a number of recommendations in the review intended to modernise the copyright regime. These include:
	strengthening enforcement by bringing the penalty for online infringement of copyright into line with the current penalty for physical infringement of copyright;enacting Section 107A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, so giving trading standards officers new duties and powers to enforce copyright infringement; improving access to content with a new limited private copying exception for format shifting of works and allowing private copying for research to cover all forms of content;enabling education provisions to cover distance learning and the use of interactive whiteboards;improving the provisions around archiving and preservation so that historical records do not become obsolete;creating an exception to copyright for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche; and proposals will also be made to the European Commission that they look at the issue of access and use of content where the copyright owner is hard to trace, so-called "orphan works" and the issue of creative, transformative or derivative works.
	The Government look forward to working with all stakeholders in taking forward these and the other recommendations in the review.

Israel and Lebanon: Hostages

Lord Dykes: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What new initiatives they will discuss with their European Union counterparts to help the Government of Israel to secure the release of the three Israeli soldiers kidnapped prior to the outbreak of Lebanon hostilities in July.

Lord Triesman: Both the EU and we have called for the immediate release of the two Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah. In the UN Secretary-General's letter of 1 December to members of the Security Council, he reconfirmed that he continues to make the unconditional release of the captured Israeli soldiers a top priority and that the facilitator he appointed to secure their release is engaged in an intensive effort with all parties to reach a resolution.
	These negotiations are necessarily sensitive in nature and the Secretary-General has our full support for his efforts, which are best carried out by experienced professionals under UN auspices.

Local Government: Council Tax

Lord Greaves: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether the expected average council tax increase in England in 2007—08 of less than 5 per cent is an average across all local authorities or a cap on each of them individually; and, if the former, what provision will be made for increases that are above 5 per cent in some authorities to be offset by increases in other authorities of less than 5 per cent.

Baroness Andrews: The Government have made it clear that they expect to see an average council tax increase of less than 5 per cent in England in 2007-08.
	No decisions have been taken on capping principles, but the Government remain prepared to take capping action to deal with excessive increases if that proves necessary. This applies to all authorities, including police and fire authorities.

Local Government: Council Tax

Lord Greaves: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the statement by Baroness Andrews on 28 November (HL Deb, col 667) on the local government finance settlement for 2007—08, whether councils which publish three-year council tax figures will be able to modify those figures later in response to changes in local circumstances, such as changing needs, unforeseen events and the decisions of voters in local elections.

Baroness Andrews: We believe that local authorities should use the funding stability provided by three-year settlements to give their council tax payers greater certainty as well. We therefore expect them to publish three-year council tax figures. Although authorities will not be bound by figures provided voluntarily, their value to council tax payers will be diminished by subsequent modifications and we would expect authorities to explain fully to their council tax payers the reasons for any changes.

Museums: V&A Theatre Museum

Lord Rix: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What is their response to the proposal by the Victoria and Albert Museum to close the Theatre Museum on 7 January 2007.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The trustees of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) are responsible for decisions concerning the location of the performing arts collection, part of which is currently housed in the Theatre Museum in Covent Garden. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for ensuring that the V&A upholds its obligations to care for the performing arts collection and to maintain public access to it.
	While it is disappointing that the site in Covent Garden will have to close and that those elements of the collection displayed at the site will no longer be in the West End, the department is confident that the V&A will ensure access to the collections is maintained, and ultimately enhanced through a new, dedicated gallery in the South Kensington Museum and through improved access at the study and storage facility in Blythe House—where the majority of the collection is currently stored. More investment will also go into digitising the collection and to touring displays which will improve access for those unable to visit London.

Museums: V&A Theatre Museum

Lord Rix: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether the Victoria and Albert Museum submitted to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport detailed costings to show the savings from the proposed closure of the Theatre Museum.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport provides grant in aid to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to enable it to care for, and to provide access to, its entire collection. Distribution of this funding is the responsibility of the V&A directors and trustees. However the V&A has kept the department informed of the likely level of savings that it anticipates will result from the closure of the site in Covent Garden as well as providing an indication of the level of investment needed to make the site fit for purpose. Part of the savings created by the move back to South Kensington will be reinvested back into the performing arts collection.

Museums: V&A Theatre Museum

Lord Rix: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they will make representations to the Victoria and Albert Museum about deferring the closure of the Theatre Museum's Russell Street site until proper consultation can take place with the theatre community and possible sources of further funding.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) did undertake a consultation with those within the theatre community earlier this year and has followed up a number of suggestions and possible funding sources that arose from that consultation. The V&A has also sought to secure other sources of funding, but unfortunately has not been successful in securing the money that is needed to improve the premises.

Planning

Lord Baker of Dorking: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether, following the decision of the Information Commissioner in the case of the Vauxhall Tower, it is now the practice of the Minister who makes a decision on a planning application to issue at the same time as the decision is announced a redacted version of the submission received from the department.

Baroness Andrews: No. When the Secretary of State issues her decisions on planning applications and appeals, she concurrently releases a copy of the inspector's report, but does not routinely issue redacted versions of submissions from departmental officials to Ministers.

Schools: Admissions

Lord Baker of Dorking: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they will place in the Library of the House the admissions criteria for all the exclusive faith schools that have been approved since 1997.

Lord Adonis: Maintained faith schools have not been able to make their places exclusively available to children of their faith since 2002, although they can give them priority if there are more applications than places available. Between 1997 and 2002 they were able to reach agreement with their local authority to keep places empty in order to preserve their religious character.
	Records of admission criteria for existing schools are not held centrally. Details of proposed admission arrangements for new schools are not currently required to be included in published notices. We are consulting on draft regulations flowing from the Education and Inspections Act 2006 that will make this a requirement.

Shipping: Merchant Navy

Lord Bradshaw: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 28 November (WA 50), how many British Merchant Navy officers and ratings are currently in training; and what intakes are proposed by the Merchant Navy Training Board of British trainees for 2007.

Lord Davies of Oldham: Recruitment is a matter for the shipping companies themselves and, as such, there is no central collection point for information on the total numbers of officers and ratings currently in training.
	The Government do keep figures on trainees under the Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) scheme. The number of new officer trainees starting under the scheme in 2005-06 was 562. The number of junior officers starting a course leading to a second certificate of competency under SMarT in 2005-06 was 337, and there were 2,851 new starters under the scheme who were on shore-based training programmes (of up to 52 weeks' duration) for ratings, officers and other experienced seafarers. It is not within the remit of the Merchant Navy Training Board to propose the intake of trainees in any given year.

Sport: UK School Games

Lord Luke: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether the International Olympic Committee agreed to call the 2006 Youth Games Festival in Glasgow the School Sports Olympics, as stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 25 October; if so, when such permission was granted; and whether the use of the word Olympics in this context is in line with the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006.

Lord Davies of Oldham: The UK School Games is a multi-sport event for the most talented young people in the country of school age. The first event was held in Glasgow in September 2006. Coventry will host the event in 2007. The International Olympic Committee's agreement was not required because neither of these events currently has any association with the London 2012 Games, the IOC or the Olympic movement more widely. The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is looking at how the UK Schools Games can be associated with the London 2012 Games from 2008 onwards

Sport: UK Sport

Lord Higgins: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many UK Sport employees have had competitive experience at either winter or summer Olympic Games.

Lord Davies of Oldham: A total of four current UK Sport employees have had competitive experience at either winter or summer Olympic Games, with a further two board members having had Olympic and one having had Paralympic experience.

Sudan: Darfur

Lord Hylton: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they have proposals (a) to support, or propose the earliest possible deployment of, a United Nations Force in Chad; (b) to call for the enforcement of a no fly zone over the whole of Darfur; and (c) to enforce existing and new sanctions against major officials in Khartoum.

Lord Triesman: The UK strongly supported UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1706, which, inter alia, asked the UN to report on possible options for a UN operation in Chad. An assessment team has recently deployed to Chad and we expect the UN Secretary-General to report back to the Security Council later this month. We will consider all options with our Security Council partners.
	Under UNSCR 1564 the Government of Sudan (GoS) are obliged to refrain from all "hostile military overflights" of Darfur. The GoS themselves committed to this in the Abuja Security Protocol, signed on 9 November 2004. We continue to press the Government to abide by this commitment. With our Security Council partners we will consider all options which may help to improve the security situation in Darfur.
	The UK strongly supported UNSCR 1672, passed in April this year, which imposed sanctions, a travel ban and an assets freeze, on four individuals from all sides to the conflict. We rigorously enforce all UN sanctions.

Taxation: Inheritance Tax

Lord Barnett: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What the loss of tax revenue would be if the inheritance tax threshold was raised to £500,000.

Lord McKenzie of Luton: Raising the inheritance tax threshold to £500,000 with effect from 2007-08 would have the following impact on forecast revenue:
	
		
			 Year Reduction in receipts 
			 2007-08 £0.8 billion 
			 2008-09 £1.7 billion 
			 2009-10 £1.9 billion 
			 2010-11 £2.1 billion

Waste Management: Recycling

Lord Greaves: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What are their estimates of the amount and proportion of commercial waste that is recycled in England, and where applicable in each waste collection authority, in the following categories (a) waste collected by local authorities; (b) waste collected by commercial organisations; and (c) waste disposed of directly.

Lord Rooker: The table below shows the estimates of the amount and proportion of commercial waste recycled in England, and by each English region, in 2002-03; the most recent year for which figures are available.
	
		
			 Commercial Waste   Thousand tonnes 
			  Recycled & Reused Percentage of Total Total Commercial Waste 
			 East Midlands 863 37% 2,322 
			 East of England 1,248 38% 3,308 
			 London 2,281 41% 5,604 
			 North East 408 34% 1,199 
			 North West 1,245 32% 3,833 
			 South East 1,565 30% 5,271 
			 South West 1,051 35% 2,967 
			 West Midlands 1,221 40% 3,019 
			 Yorkshire & the Humber 1,221 44% 2,797 
			 England 11,104 37% 30,320 
			 Source:  2002-03 Environment Agency Commercial and Industrial Waste Survey 
		
	
	However, the management method of 1.5 million tonnes of commercial waste was not recorded by the survey.
	Reliable estimates are available only down to regional level and the survey did not identify the contractual arrangements for collection of this waste. Some local authorities will collect some commercial waste and this will vary depending on local circumstances.

Water Supply: Abstraction

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	What criteria the Environment Agency uses to assess whether online access to information about water abstraction is a threat to national security; and whom they consult in making the decision.

Lord Rooker: If Environment Agency and Defra security advisers assess that the security of water supplies could be compromised if certain information is placed in the public domain via websites, access to that information will be restricted.

Water Supply: Abstraction

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 27 November (WA 34), what is on the finite list of exemptions from disclosure of environmental information.

Lord Rooker: The 2004 regulations on exceptions to the duty to disclose environmental information state:
	A public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that:
	(a) it does not hold that information when an applicant's request is received;(b) the request for information is manifestly unreasonable;(c) the request for information is formulated in too general a manner and the public authority has complied with regulation 9;(d) the request relates to material which is still in the course of completion, to unfinished documents or to incomplete data; or(e) the request involves the disclosure of internal communications.
	For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that its disclosure would adversely affect:
	(a) international relations, defence, national security or public safety;(b) the course of justice, the ability of a person to receive a fair trial or the ability of a public authority to conduct an inquiry of a criminal or disciplinary nature;(c) intellectual property rights; (d) the confidentiality of the proceedings of that or any other public authority where such confidentiality is provided by law;(e) the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information where such confidentiality is provided by law to protect a legitimate economic interest; (f) the interests of the person who provided the information where that person: (i) was not under, and could not have been put under, any legal obligation to supply it to that or any other public authority; (ii) did not supply it in circumstances such that that or any other public authority is entitled apart from these regulations to disclose it; and (iii) has not consented to its disclosure; or(g) the protection of the environment to which the information relates.

Water Supply: Abstraction

Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Further to the Written Answer by Lord Rooker on 27 November (WA 34), what are (a) the specified interests, and (b) the public interests they or the Environment Agency considered relevant in deciding whether online access to information on water abstraction is a threat to national security.

Lord Rooker: Paragraphs (1)(b) and (5) of Regulation 12 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 on exceptions to the duty to disclose environmental information state:
	Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (9), a public authority may refuse to disclose environmental information requested if:
	(b) in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exception outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.
	For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a public authority may refuse to disclose information to the extent that its disclosure would adversely affect:
	(a) international relations, defence, national security or public safety;
	(b) the course of justice, the ability of a person to receive a fair trial or the ability of a public authority to conduct an inquiry of a criminal or disciplinary nature;(c) intellectual property rights;(d) the confidentiality of the proceedings of that or any other public authority where such confidentiality is provided by law;(e) the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information where such confidentiality is provided by law to protect a legitimate economic interest;(f) the interests of the person who provided the information where that person: (i) was not under, and could not have been put under, any legal obligation to supply it to that or any other public authority; (ii) did not supply it in circumstances such that that or any other public authority is entitled apart from these regulations to disclose it; and (iii) has not consented to its disclosure; or(g) the protection of the environment to which the information relates.